The first opinion that occurs to us when we are suddenly asked about something is usually not our own but only the current one pertaining to our class, position, or parentage; our own opinions seldom swim on the surface.

A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.

The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings.

Some men are born posthumously.

A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.